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/ 8 September 2004
The South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) has lauded the Western Province Rugby Football Union’s recent efforts aimed at eradicating violence in club rugby in the province. ”In recent weeks, there has been clear evidence that the province takes the violence matter seriously,” said Sarfu CEO Mveleli Ncula.
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/ 7 September 2004
Tens of thousands of Russians massed outside the Kremlin on Tuesday to express their anger at terror after the Beslan school hostage tragedy, as families pressed on with an agonising search for loved ones still missing. The Interfax agency cited official police figures as saying 130 000 people turned out for the rally.
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/ 7 September 2004
United States President George Bush apparently mixed up his words while delivering his usual campaign speech about the rising cost of health care. The president was speaking to an applauding crowd of thousands of supporters in Poplar Bluff, a south-east Missouri town of 16 500 people.
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/ 7 September 2004
Iraqi Shi’ite militiamen were planting bombs in the street of a Baghdad slum amid echoing machinegun fire on Tuesday, as angry foot soldiers of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr cursed the Iraqi government and United States ”occupiers” after deadly fighting erupted overnight, killing as many as 40 people.
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/ 7 September 2004
Hippos in a Ugandan game park are dying of a disease yet to be identified by scientists. Sixty have so far perished in the past two months, wildlife officials said on Tuesday. ”We have been finding the animals dead with saliva oozing out of their mouths,” said John Bosco Numwe, the chief warden of Queen Elizabeth National Park.
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/ 7 September 2004
The United States has granted the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) government -million in aid for development programmes, the head of the US Agency for International Development (USAid) has said in Kinshasa. The USAid chief also urged political players in the DRC to settle internal squabbles.
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/ 7 September 2004
A total of R72-million is to be set aside in the budget for LandCare programmes in the coming financial year, a deputy director in the national Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs said on Tuesday. He was speaking at Elsenburg outside Stellenbosch at the two-yearly LandCare national conference.
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/ 7 September 2004
Disney Enterprises has lost its bid to set aside an attachment order against its South African-registered trademarks, enabling the family of musician Solomon Linda to sue Disney for royalties in a South African court. Pretoria High Court Judge Hekkie Daniels on Tuesday dismissed Disney’s application against the executors of Linda’s estate.
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/ 7 September 2004
Hundreds of thousands of Russians gathered in towns and cities across the country on Tuesday in a show of solidarity after the school hostage-taking in Beslan in which at least 335 adults and children died. Placards held by participants bore mottos such as ”Russia against terror” and ”We grieve together”.